The Sun. — London, England, 1809-12-22 00:00:00

The long continuance of westerly winds has pre 'Yesterday being St. Thoma,'s Day, the gleFion for ye ited the arrival of colliers from England, and coals Common Councilmeti, &c. was held for all iLe dit have risen to an enormous price, to the great preju-' ferent Wards in the City, and great were the coo dice of the lower classes, which our worthy Mayor is endeavouring to alleviate by every means in his testants. . i The Lord Mayor went in state to his own Ward power. Major C.W. Clarke, of the 3 5 th , and Capt. R. (Fatringdon Within), which he held at Christ's Church, of the Corsican Rangers, who so much dis- Hospital, when Mr. Percall, of Cheapside, Was tinguished their valour at the Seven Islands , are na - nominated. The show of hands were against Mr. the , Metcalf, who in consequence demanded a poll ; arid Jives of Cork, and a great credit to this ci t y ; the new candidate was declared duly elected.. His former is brother to the late General Sir William Clarke, of the 84th, who died at Goa , and the latter Lordship next went to Vintry' Ward and held a Wardmote for Alderman Newnharn, where three is brother to Mr. Church, one of our Sheriffs. fresh candidates were chosen ; he next went to the The neighbourhood of George-street, in this city , Ward of Billingsgate, and held a Wardmote for Sir was very much alarmed the other night, by the NV. Leighton ; several new candidates were nomi outrageo,.s conduct of an Engbsh stranger, who nand, one of whom had a superior show of hands proceeded to break the windows of several houses to Mr. Beard, one of-the old ones. A poll was de and to do other mischief: being brought before manded for him, and the contest is exeded to be the Sheriff, he alleged his name to be Baylie, . , and that he was travelling, having been at Glasgow severe. and Dublin previous to his coming hither. We ra - The Lord Mayor next went to Lime-street Ward . w then apprehend that Baylie is an assumed name, and and held a Warchnote for Alderman Jacob, who as that he is reall the celebrated Mr. L whose lately chosen, but who is at present abroad. A new —, y candidate was nominated, who had the shew of eccentricities excited so much notice some time ago i hands, and Deputy Braun declined troubling the , in London. He appears much derang ed, a n d is for the present committed to the care of Mr. Bu ll, who W 'rd with a poll s Sir James Shaw held his Wardmote for the Ward keeps a most excellent well-regulated mad-house in ; of Portsoken, where two fresh candidates were no the neighbourhood &f Cork. The •day previous to , his being taken up, be seemed very desirous to ex - urinated and a poll demanded. At tour o'clock the change some Irish bank notes for English ones, in . numbers were— tending, as we apprehend. to go for England by one Mr. Cam:tech, . . . sr Mr. Ria 27 . 49 *l3r , sco 22 of the Bristol packets. His 2ppearthce acid address i Hoppe 47 when spoken'to are perfectly gentlemaiilike. He had ' ;%C: k a e r n ter " 4z been .. about three weeks at a public-house in this vi- Alderman C. Smith held his Wardmote at Bow eituty. . i Church, for Cardwainer's Ward, when six new Can t didates started against the old ones. A poll was de -1 manded, at the close of which the oumbers were-- Mr. Hick G. inith Abbey Kemble Hammon Raw Trimbey Sir William Curtis held his Wardmote for Towe r Ward, when several new candidates were nominated ant: a poll demanded. Sir Richard Carr Glynn held his Wardmote for Bishopsgate, when live candidates were nominated, aria a poll demanded. Sir JAL, Eatner held his Wardmote for Lang bourn Ward, when two new candidatesdeMan''ed a poll. Sir John Perring held his 'N\radaine for Bread street, when tile two new candidates demanded a poll there. AU of the above commenced yesterday at eleven O'clock. Sir Charles Flower had no new candidates in his Ward of Coruhill ; neither had Alderman Scholey for the Ward of Candlewick. CORK, Dec. is. CITY ELECTIO3, 3. THE AMERICAIV DUCHESS. (We copy the following from a Morning Paper. It is difficult to believe, that Buonaparte, when he made Ihe American relict of his brother Jerome o Duchess, was impelled by no other motive than , the ostensible one--the vanity of shewing that Whosoever by any connectiou bad becn,allied with his family must be distinguished and exalted.—Ar rogant and vain as he is, we can scarcely think him sincere in such vanity as this. For he must. know, • that taken as mere vanity, the cost o' it inkist give some offence in France ; and he could scarcely fail to be aware, that evzii in America, if it be understood that the ennobling of Madame Pater son and her seen is to have no consequences beyond themselves, is not to be followed z-,y otter brans of dignities, the envy of her title, untempered by any kope of rivalling. it, can have no other .etfect than that of disgusting her former equals, and offending his own partizans. It is also difficult to believe that he can have formed the presumptuous design of establishing any sort of Court in the centre of Repubiican Ame rica; but, if we will guess at his motive, we must ehus , :. between imprebabilities, and this seems the least of the two. We have other instances of his Presumption greater than this. Spain and Tor tuga' were his devoted instruments, becoming every day more submissive and more valuable, for through them he received the treasures of the New World. Yet Spain and Portugal •he risked for the sake of usurping their thrones. Their in lerumentality could not content him ; he must have dominion and-possession.. Upon this risk he staked also his own throne ; for, however securely be may be styposed to have accomplished his plan, the story of that adventure is not yet told ; the War will alternate betweea Spain and Germany ; 44 '11m he has lost half another army in gaining victories over the Spaniards, Austria will try her fate against the other half ; and, if he • should once more reach Vienna, his brother Joseph will again have to fight for Madrid. But this is fo- 1 reign from our present consideration, except to sbew how little capable he is of contentment, and how Contemptuous of danger he has been rendered by saecess. In any scheme, however, respeeting Ame rica, his risk of present good will not be great.— America, notwithstanding all the friendship of Mr. 3 efferson, and Mr. Maddison, has hitherto been but It sort of negative instrument in his baud, and of her Continuing such he cannot be sure, since the Ame ricans either cannot, or will not, live without trade. Pie may intend to forge, out of this pretence of ex alting his repudiated sister in law, some golden and afterwards some iron. chains for the Republicans of the United States. There is already a Governor appointed for the i oung Prince, his nephew.. A few snore Officers will make a Court. The Duchess will have her establishment. There will be an influx of salaries from France, and less visible bribes will fol low for Americans, who shall deserve them from Buonaparte. The new Court will soon outshine the homely finery of the President's hous.!.. It will be instantly a head-quarters of corruption. The French Minister will appear there as the servant of the Young Prince, and by a careful display of ceremoni ous adulation, not yet known to the Ainericans, will endeavour to give them an habitual feeling of such respell for his person as may be converted into awe. A nephew of Buonaparte, and yet an American, this youth may become popular amongst a people, whom the agents of France already seduce in some degree, though they have against them the odium of a foreign conneCtion, with the alloy of a native Priece's influence. Without being very confident in our conje6ture, we will now venture to say what it is.—This child is destined to try his fortune in an attempt to be come Buona2arte's Viceroy in America. BROAD-STREET WARD. At the Meeting of the Wardmore held yesterday, at Drapers' Hall, all the oltt Members were on a show at hand, cleated except Mr. Cott-erell, in whose stead Mr. Clark was eleded. Mr. Atcheso❑ wai proposed, and a poll demanded for him, a►►d for Mr. Cotterell. It appears Mr. Atcheson had not can vassed the Ward. At the close of the, poll the num ber. were, viz : Mr. Ciark . . . Crokatt Nl.rryatt . . . Blaxland Paterson Sharp Mr. }learn . Arthur . . Chapman . . A tclieson . . Cauiton . . Cotterell . . • •• • • J 'E WITHIN. * Mr. Dock sey . . 13irt * Palmer . . . . Hiscien White Vallence SGATE. * Mr. Tilford Windus . . Blundell . * Davis . . Could . • * Koss . . Poynder . . Knight . . . . Gough • • • • 20 It was invidnusly observed in a Morning Paper of yesterday, ti nt the Earl of CHATHAM was con spicuous in the :1 cle at St. James's the day before, " to shew that he was to be supported by the Host of Government." Surely a liberal mind would en ISuch an occasion 261 upon the principles of British Justice, and infer, that the Earl of CHATHAM is emboldened by a consciousness of having discharged out duty to the utmost of his power, and therefore appeared before his Sovereign with the firmness of tegrity, and a mind prepared for the fullest inves tigation. Such, we doubt not, would have been the inference which the sane Paper would have dra wn , if any public Officer of its own side dt the 9,.uestion were placed in the siline situation as the 4 :41 of CHATHAM, and were to have appeared in Such a manner as that which occasioned so illiberal I comment. AP. Mr. Wigan l7 Williams Swift Fournier *Farr *Dollman . . . . CRIPPLEGA * Mr. Heygate . Delver * Waterhouse . . . kcrl * Hahlaurton . . . Hardy • Nightingale . . BISHO Sir W. Rawlins . • • 33 Mr. Nash . 3 6 Clode Dutleil 29 Tricker - 27 Cla ke * Marsh * judkins Greenaway . . . Mr. Cummings . . . str Hall . . 2J Loxley Cheesewright . . . Wright Maw man *Smith ALDERSGA' Mr. King . . Turner . . . Betts . Fisher . . Aldridge . . FA R It I N GDO Mr. Croak Wait Liman Griffith Dawson 33 Young .. Miller hewer Herring 'E WARD. Mr. Paxton . . Thomas Loveland . . . . Rowlatt WITHOUT. Mr. Quin Poniitex . Reeve . . Herfal . . T. Reeve . Murrell . . Nicholls . Harper . • • z 6 • • 22 BILLINGSGATE WARD. John Ord, Esq. . . . 6 I Mr. R. S. Dickens . 6 I A. Brown S. Dontford .. . I M. Edis 61 S. Heaisay E. Hanson * New A, Mr. Wm. Dunk ley . Vihrt Sudlow , *lames Pickard . . . * Samuel Lowell . . *Wm. Piper . . . . *G. King *Wm. Sampson . dembers. ABERDEEN, DEC. 16.—We regret to state a dreadful accident which occurred during the violence of the storm yesterday. Between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, the greater part of the rope work, lately erected near the links, was blown down with a tremendous crash, and levelled with the ground. Of the numerous work people then ern . - ployed within the building, providentially, the greater number were in that part which withstood the fury of the storm, and were thereby enabled to escape. Those who were in the other part of the work were buried in its ruins; one boy was killed on the spot, the foreman and another boy were got out so severely bruised and mangled, that they are consi dered in danger; two others were much bruised, but are in a favourable way of recovery, and some of the Other workmen are also variously injured, LAW REPORI: COURT OF KING's BENCH. "g.c. r. BRYANT V. BROWN. This was an .'ction brought tthe lzin P. against the defendant, 0 .recover a e a tnsi .erase sum of money, the value of 15 ton of chuese. The plaintiff sold to tlf.;.' delenCant the cheese in (luestlon, which was Dutch, and the defendant purchosed h, not from sample, but under an engagement that it should ix: .good, sound, and new. It was contended that tbe whole of it was almo.t. unmarketable, being for thy' most part unsound, decayed, and o;t1; he therefore refused to accept it, and the plaintiff consequently brought this action to compel him to ab.de by his con tract. Several witnesses were called on behalf of the plaintiff, and a great many on the part of the ch. fendant ; on the one side, to shew that the cheeie was good and marketable; on the other, to thew the direct contrary. The J ury, without much hesitation, found a ver did. for the defendant. STEPHENS V. LYNCH. Although tire sum for whin this a&ioa was brought did not exceed tisl. yet it came before a Special Jury, at the ekperice of the defendant. The circumstances of the case were these:—De fendant having some dealings with a person of the name of Creedland, and being called upon for the payment of the surn in question, drew for that amount on his correspondent, a Mr. Jones, who ac cepted his bill, and Mr. Creedland indorsed ie over to Mr. Stephens, the plaintiff. When the bill be came due- it was dishonoured, and Jones since be coming bankrupt, the plaintiff brought this aCtion, as indorsee of the said bill, against the defendant, as th drawer. On the plaintiff's part, the above-mentioned Mr. Creediand, and a lad of the name of Millen, were called to prove a conversation which they had with the detendznt about three months after the bili: nod been dishonoured by Jones, the acceptor. 'wails conversation the defendant expressed surprize that Junes had not paid the bill, but tie ddLied, that if Jones would not, or could not pay it, he should still consider hini.•elf responsible for the payment, and would pay it accordingly. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL addvessed the Jury on behalt of the defendants. He adinited that there A as such a conversation between the-. detend,:nts and CreeLtland as that sworn to, but he denied that it fixed the defendant with the new liability, as at the time that conversation was stated to have taken place, he (the defendant) was ignorant that the plaintiff luau given Jones further indulgence and tune to pay the bill, hich he actually did do. Jones, the acceptor, was then called; he, how ever, testified, that within ten days of the disho now in g of the nAI, he himself acquainted defendant 1 of that tact ;-and with respect to itis having assets in 1 ' hand wilt , n the bill was accepted, his clerk, in set= tilog his books, bad actually wade the defendant his debtor to the amount Of 20001. On his re-examination he said,that it was a mistake of his.clerk ; - tor that in tact it is now ascertained that he was. indebted to the defendant 4001. Thi,; man's e‘idence, however, was such that he found little credence with the Jury, who found for the plaintiff the amount of the bill, with interest since it became due. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 21. siTfINGs REPORE SIR ALAN CSIAMBRE. OSWALD V. GARDINER, FOR THE SUN FIRE INSUR- ANCE OFFICE. This was an a&ion brought by the Plaintiff, under a P o licy ot Insurance, to recover 4411. being the damages alleged to have been sustained by the Pl a i nt iff, who is a Leather-seller at King's-place, Stones'-End, Southwark, in consequence ot a fire in his premises, on the 4th of February last. Several witnesses were 'adduced for the Plaintiff, to prove :hat he carried on an extensive business, and that they had sent him various kinds of leather in considerable quantities shortly before the fire.— There was also read an affidavit of th e Plaintiff, to stew the extent of hip loss, and siatiug the tad of the fire. . -- Mr. Serjeant LENS, 'for the Defendant, after zu addre's to the July, proceeded to call several wit nesses. Mr. Terent, who lives next door to the Plaintiff, proved, that about half past one in the morning be tween the 4th and sth of February, his attention was attracted by an unusoal noise in the Pi-aintiff's house, of persons , running up and down stairs, an:t talking loudly. Some of his family got up, and he himself again lay down ; and shortly after was alarmed by a watchman rapping at the door, and telling him his house was on fire. He came down stairs as quick as possible, and upon timber inquiry, learned that the fire was upon the Plaintiff's pre mises. He looked into the warehouse through a key-hole, and saw it in flames. He communicated the circumstance to the Plaintiff, who, after a few minutes, came to the door, completelyln his cloches, with his boots on. Witness expressed a wish to en ter and see ; but the Plaintiff positively denied there was any fire, and said it was quite impossible.— Witness however persisted, and at length obtained admission ; and so 6000 as he entered, and pro ceeded to the pl,ice whence the smoke issued, he perceived a tub of oil on fire, the flames of which had already burnt a hole t►hrough the ceiling aboVe it. Witness immediately seized parr of an old spout, and assisted by a lodger in the house, named Poole, who procured a bucket, they obtained water from some butts on the premises, and in less than twenty minutes completely extinguished the flames; and upon examining the premises, they could per ceive no injury done. There was no great quantity of leather in the warehouse, and no part of that in• juied• by the fire. Mr. Poole corroborated that evident a ; and a Mr. Shiptosi, an ironmonger, living opposite, and several other "witnesses who were present on the occasiun, were also examined, and aid 7 not see the Plaintiff use any exertion to get the, fire under. Mr. Shipton • also proved that the Plaintiff came nest morning into his shop, and, in answer to s om e ( p its :i ons touchi►►g the extent of his loss, said, he thnugltt it might amount to 2001, which the witness at the time thought very enormous. John Hawkins, who had been a fireman for the last 30 years, said, he came to 'h Plaintiff's at - 1• (Lree in the morning, shoctly after the o' tilt! P. totes, and the PlaiatifT !old !brat th:it bunches of lentiter had been burnt ; but on ex ;;;I;ti ing- Cie warehouse, the ()lily evidence of tire could perc....ive an oil ci,k about halt cousuird,. Li-al a hule about 18 inch,, , s iu dia.ixter over it. The ohly leatlur lip soAv bench under t!:e h::v4k.; no tnaiks of Ut.lrii.• inry ; and he via; Couvinced, Irotn -dic - r coniiaw,nce rf the lire, there wai not ttat., *s•lbstance not very inflain!n ilor could he perceive any ashes or cTttri of burnt leather. 1 . Sever;tl leather-sei6 ; rs aid' eurrier s were elvon]:•- edi they all agree:! it was impossible for ato f , t: of leather to hlve hr,-N1 onqs ti cr short a time as eu minmes, or even in a whole day, had the fire long continaed. Various samples of the leather alleged to have been burnt were pro duced,' from which, on comparison of weight and bulk witli the quantity alleged by the Plaintiff to have burnt, (haioeiy, a 'domed seven ~unused weight), it was c.aar that the whole i.vares ottse. it filled, could not have contained so mulch. Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD, on the part of the Plain tiff, thow,bt it unliecesiary to call any more evidence. It was dear, from toe testimony already adduced, the logs WAS nut so great as represented, at2d he regretted, his client had been so ill-advised. Lie Plaintiff was of cour,i o nonctlited. SINGULAR ROBBERY.—Fri~.~ynig!it theeount ing-house of Mi. W. Mavin,z, hrush-n - tanuln'threr, in NeWCditiC-upon-Tyne, was broke into, and rob bed of bills to the amount of 2461. Tne circum stances attending this robbery ailurd strong suspicion that the depred itor either belongs to the mannfae tory, or Was' perfectly acquaint e d whh th e regela- Lions of the house. Tile bibs were kept in a;in (:,se, and were regularly locked up every mi s fit in an iron safe where the oireks are deposited, an , t,-in cr_se Of fire, the key of it is placed m R pal Lion• in the office, with which none bat ihoie. played about ilie coucern were accluaalted, of fi ce i s at one end of the mantatactory, and besides the communication it Ii :s from without, therons pilot her by a staircase, !ruin a tv irehiiuse windows of wilich are inclosed by shutvis,.fn , ,i se cured with spring bolts. In :he yard outside of the manutaCtory, a ferocious mastiff dog is kept, ,vho is never chained at nioglit ; and the gates entering hit() the yard are regularly lucked and secured by stiui.g bars on the tnen leaving off their work. Not .a itii standing these precautions, the robber had been iii the yard, and no dog was heard to bark by any of the neighbours ; he then had entered by a window of the low warehouse, which was se.2ured as above described ; had gone up stairs and broke two panes of glass in the office door, through which he passed; bad taken the key of the safe and opened b, and abstraeted the tin case containing the bills, with out any thing else in the office or warehouse being disturbed. What is remarkable, there I,va., a con siderable sum in cash in a drawer of the desk, and on the desk were two checks on Ridley and Co.'s' bank for about 801. both of which were in the same situation in the morning. The rubber had then de liberately retraced his .steps, opened the inner bar of the great gale through which cars usually pass, and walked out, leaving the door open without any disturbance from the dog whatever. Sufficient precautions are taken that the bills may be of no advantage to the thief ; and from the spirit with_ which fire Newcastle Association, of which Mr May log is a member, his taken it up, and the liberalre ward he himself has offered, it is to be hoped that the villain may be deteCted, and consequently aufier for his deserts. A letter from Gibraltar states the Ils; of she Spanish army in the battle of °calla to amoirnt about 5000 killed and wounded, and goo° taken p r i so ners. The French had about t 600 killed and wounded, and were twice repulsed with great loss in their attacks on the right wing. Colonel MARSHALL:, whom the French pap!!rs state to have been mortally wounded in the de_ fence of Gerona, was a native of Tra!ee, in Ire.; land, in the neighbourhood of which he had a handsome estate. lie joined the Spanish army as a volunteer. Hill, on Saturd ty, w!cn s u :d fo The r e was a good show o f fat b ee f f rom Lincoln -Bs. 6d to 99. per 4t0n,., hut no , tho.r fa! beast s sh r ir m e, upon Norwich were exhibited. The little fat tn.mon prodoe e d fetched 70. per lb. Some store sheep and hall-bred lambs went 04 . 1 - caddy at good prices. Hogs were very dear. Cows and calves also high. There were some straw-yard 'bullocks from Lincolnshire, and a good show of galloways; the latter found a ready sale at the same high price,s. At the Norwich 'War ket, on Saturday, both V's' and Barl e y were dulle the preceding we e k, an d at l ower 475. to 495. Bailey 14 s to fze,s. p er o cp o f r ioc s L a en l s e b. than NNct eoat SMITHFIELD MARKET, Dr c. This day's Market was but thinly supplied with different kinds of Cattle; Beef supports last price M u tt on , Veal: and Pork, are dearer; and the trade for the most part was somewhat brisk.—The sales in the Hay Market were inconsiderable ; Hoy fetched last price ; Straw'and Clover have got up iu The following prices and numbers are ao accurate statement : To sink the Offal per stone of Elb. Beef 4s. 4d. to 6s. oil. Mutton 4s. 4ct. to 6s. 6.1. Veal ss, cd. to Ss. cd. Pork ss. od. to 7s. 6d. Beasts szo.— Sheep 3,4oo.—Calves zso.—Pigs 3zo. SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET. May 51. Os. od. to 61. os. od. Straw 11. los. od. to zl.ss. od. Clover 61. os. od. to 71. 75. od. CORN EXCHANGE, DEC. 22.—The fresh arrivals of Wheat to-day are somewhat considerable, sales are heavily effedted, and hardly support last prices ; Barley in large supply, but from the - late demand, fine nearly maintains its price, other qualities ne cheaper; Malt likewise; White and. G.ey Pease lower ; in Beans little variation ; Oats are arrived in abundance,. mostly from Lincolnshire, and this trade is quoted about 2s. per quarter cheaper; in Flour little alteration. Wheat - 76.; a 92s a to2s Fine ditto - tosi a tugs Rye - - scs a 54s Barley - Os a sss i 11: it • - - . 72 a bss White Pease - ;os a 34s Grey ditto . 52s a 551 s Beans (old) . Gas a 1)64 Tick Beans (old) scs a sis Oars -24 s a 28s a 325 Poland citto -34 s a 37s rotatoe ditto 395 a —s Rape Seed - 461 a . sai Flue Flour - gos a gis Seconds .